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by xienze 4y ago
> Also: this is purely in mice. They have zero data on whether this is true for humans. Out of curiosity, how do you feel about the new bivalent BA4/BA5 booster? It's only been tested on... eight mice [0]: > So what data sp
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by xienze 4y ago
I think you might have been browsing an alternate-reality Reddit. The one I read was constantly bemoaning that no one in America was taking it seriously, "why aren't we locking down like China and New Zealand", etc.
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by xienze 4y ago
> We should have been preparing for this for years rather than letting Putin pull the rug out from under our feet. Not to be that guy, but one does have to wonder what European leaders were thinking was going to happen after sanctioning
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by xienze 4y ago
Of course you need storage. The sun doesn’t shine all day and the wind does stop blowing every now and then.
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by xienze 4y ago
I can name numerous blue cities in red states that, you know, have municipal water systems that work properly and have for decades. Stop blaming the Republican boogeyman for problems that are due to city-level incompetence and corruption.
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by xienze 4y ago
> Most people in the USA have gotten the first two shots, so it's probably best to speed the release of the booster by doing a shorter study of just booster use I understand that, but I think you’re missing the bigger issue. Let’s
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by xienze 4y ago
> Individuals 18 years of age and older are eligible for a single booster dose of the Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine, Bivalent if it has been at least two months since they have completed primary vaccination or have received the most recent bo
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by xienze 4y ago
> $100K income, $1M house Methinks you may have picked these numbers to tilt things in favor of CA. If the income were _slightly_ more in line with what might be considered “reasonable” for a $1M house, like say $250K, suddenly the math
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by xienze 4y ago
Yeah I’m really curious about the methodology here. Property tax is surely higher, but then again property values are a good bit lower. Income tax is certainly lower in TX (hard not to be). Sales tax I’d wager is lower in TX as well, at
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by xienze 4y ago
Key phrase here being “recently bought.” Get back to us after you’ve had to replace the roof, had a water main burst, or something of that nature that requires you to cough up $10K+ all at once. The mortgage is the _minimum_ monthly payme
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by xienze 4y ago
> So what are the added costs that landlords are "saving" renters from? Utilities will generally cost a bit more. But the real killers with home ownership tend to be large expenses that come due all at once. Roof needs to be
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by xienze 4y ago
> What about America is so fundamentally different than Europe that would make the same policies that work there not work here? And yet, if I suggested that the US do something a lot of (all?) European countries do, like having to presen
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by xienze 4y ago
Then by all means, tell us the solution. Because progressive meccas like San Francisco and Seattle, despite spending more and more money on the homeless every single year, can’t seem to figure out what to do either.
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by xienze 4y ago
> I don't think disgust is "innate". Sure it is. Did someone have to teach you not to eat shit? Or green meat that smells like death? Certain smells and physical appearances trigger reactions in our bodies that tell us
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by xienze 4y ago
> There are a lot of things that go into it, but from my point of view, it really feels like it's a lot of "Because we can, and because we convince people to pay it" going on with the installed costs. I think this happens
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by xienze 4y ago
IIRC there was quite a bit of piling up going on but eventually manufacturers have decided (as an example) “eh this car doesn’t really need that chip that controls cruise control, ship it” to some extent.
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by xienze 4y ago
This is the model I bought as well. Was only $500 as of a few weeks ago, which is unbeatable for self-emptying with LIDAR. The rooting/Valetudo install process was super easy. Now it’s on a VLAN with no internet access.
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by xienze 4y ago
> You had homeless people because you didn't build enough housing Ehh I think it has just a _little_ bit more to do with it than just “lack of housing.” If you think the only thing keeping the homeless guy who shits on the sidewalk
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by xienze 4y ago
> Hence my question: What happened? What happened to a lot of activities kids used to do? They got replaced by ubiquitous internet-connected devices that allow them to watch any video or play any game at any time. They’d rather do that
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by xienze 4y ago
> Big and dangerous cars dominate. Just how many cars do you think are zipping around in a suburban neighborhood at any given time? The roads in a neighborhood are empty most of the time. I find it rich that people talking up the benef
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by xienze 4y ago
> and states only have authority to regulate those rights with the consent of the people. And guess what -- in states like Alabama, the people of that state have elected politicians that choose to regulate things like abortion in a manne
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by xienze 4y ago
I think it has more to do with the assumption that horse meat is probably quite tough and not very appetizing.
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by xienze 4y ago
As much as I know that governments and central banks are to blame for inflation in a general sense, it can’t be understated that A LOT of this inflation is due to starting and stopping factories, ports, etc. in response to Covid over the pa
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by xienze 4y ago
> There can't possibly be retail moving in and out of this stuff. There’s a couple different angles with these coins. First, there’s plain old hype where regular people see XX% gains in a day and jump in. There’s also groups that
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by xienze 4y ago
Sorry you got downvoted but it’s a legitimate question. If we’re really on the road to “Manhattan is gonna be underwater” levels of climate change that we can’t prevent, only keep from being worse, then as you said, why aren’t things like
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by xienze 4y ago
Sure, but you have to sell it in full every single year to get that money, which means you have to forego the possibility of that stock being worth a lot more in the future. And there’s the whole “stock might go down” thing. So no, it’s n
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by xienze 4y ago
> If someone cant accumulate roughly 15% of their annual compensation in savings, while earning $200-400k/yr, then I have no idea what else could be done here to help. The thing with those crazy Valley salaries that you hear about h
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by xienze 4y ago
So that's a pretty good result for something relatively obscure! But there must be some sort of re-encoding going on there. Because the copy of Django I ripped myself is 61.5GB, and it's only video and one DTS audio track. So I
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by xienze 4y ago
I would be surprised if it's really THAT easy to find any arbitrary movie ripped in full Blu/UHD quality without any transcoding, dowloadable within 30-45 minutes (average rip time). New Hollywood releases, sure I can buy that, b
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by xienze 4y ago
You could also buy the DVD/Blu-Ray/UHD and rip it...

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